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Everyone wants to figure out online grocery. There are the big guys, like Amazon, Walmart, and Target, as well as traditional grocers like Safeway, who are investing in ordering and delivery capabilities to help them compete as more customers move from in-store shopping to placing orders from their phones and computers. San Francisco-based startup Instacart […]

In the US, women working full-time made 80.5% of men last year, a 1.1 percentage-point increase from the year before, according to the US Census Bureau. This is partly due to rising incomes among full-time employed women. Median female earnings grew by 2.3% between 2007 and 2016, adjusted for inflation. The other half of the […]

They’re everywhere now: in your office, your bed, your kitchen toaster. Of course, they’d make it to the philharmonic at some point. At a robotics showcase in Pisa, Italy on Sept. 12, a robot—for the very first time in history—conducted an entire orchestra. The dual-armed robot, which was designed by Swiss tech company ABB and […]Read More

Ten years after the global financial crisis, economists are still puzzling over how they (mostly) failed to predict such a massive crash. Given all the data and experience at their disposal, how did they miss something so consequential? In a new paper (pdf) entitled “Where Modern Macroeconomics Went Wrong,” Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia […]

For a look at the effect of the Trump presidency on the US’s international standing, look no farther than Mexico. Mexicans’ opinions of their northern neighbor are at their lowest point in years, according to a Pew Research Center report released Thursday (Sept. 14.) They have an even dimmer view of president Donald Trump: more […]

The explosions are set to the tune used as the Monty Python theme song—each one a fiery ball of failure. In a humorous show of self-deprecation, seemingly fed by its growing confidence, Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX today (Sept. 14) unveiled a two-minute video of some of its most dramatic rocketry mishaps. It is aptly […]

Hillary Clinton’s new book, What Happened, is a 450-page naughty-or-nice list. The defeated US presidential candidate released a memoir this week in which she lays out exactly why she believes she lost the 2016 election. She’s angry—at misogynists, former FBI director James Comey, the media, and, occasionally, herself. The US now has its hands full […]Read More

There’s not a lot of overlap between the people who sign up for Amazon Prime, and the people who shop at Whole Foods. A new research report from Morgan Stanley estimates that 80% of Prime members in the US, or some 38 million people, do not currently buy things at Whole Foods, the high-end grocery […]

Shanghai-based BTCC said it would halt trading on its domestic cryptocurrency exchange by Sept. 30, in response to tighter control over trading crypto tokens by China’s central bank. This followed a report from local media (in Chinese) saying that the exchange had received a verbal notice to halt trading from Shanghai’s financial regulator. BTCC said […]

After four decades of planning and execution, NASA’s awe-inspiring Cassini spacecraft will plunge to its death in the next 24 hours. The irony is that, as Earl Maize, the program manager for NASA’s Cassini mission, put it: “Cassini’s own discoveries were its demise.” The spacecraft has been orbiting Saturn and its moons since it arrived […]Read More

Last July, Sheryl Sandberg endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in a lengthy post that opened with her daughter’s poignant question: Just a few years ago, I played a song for my kids that named all the U.S. presidents. My daughter asked, ‘Mommy, how come they’re all boys?.” We are close to making my daughter’s question […]Read More

At a time when media houses the world over are struggling for eyeballs, a 27-year-old from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has found a way to get most of the content on his website to go viral. Vinay Singhal began his entrepreneurial journey with a desire to change India and create awareness about national problems. Instead, seven […]